Which small Uranian moon discovered by Voyager 2 is named for a sprite in A Midsummer Night's Dream? Puck is the small Uranian moon named for the sprite in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Voyager 2 discovered Puck on December 30, 1985, during its approach to Uranus. The spacecraft photographed the moon during its historic 1986 Uranus flyby, providing the first close views of this previously unknown satellite.
Puck is one of Uranus's inner moons and orbits between the planet's rings and Miranda, the innermost of Uranus's five major moons. It is roughly 162 kilometers across and is the sixth-largest moon orbiting Uranus. Its surface is dark and heavily cratered in the relatively low-resolution Voyager images.
The naming convention causes the common confusion: many Uranian moons are named after Shakespearean characters, but Puck is specifically the mischievous sprite from Shakespeare's comedy. Desdemona, Cressida, and Portia are also Uranian moons, but they are not the sprite named in the question.